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Soheila Esfahani would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council, The Region of Waterloo Arts Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Region of Waterloo Arts Fund

detail of painting by Soheila Esfahani

CURRENT EXHIBITION

Cultured Pallets: Aga Khan Museum

Site-specific Installation
Curated by Bita Pourvash

Located in the Museum Collections Gallery, Cultured Pallets: Aga Khan Museum by Canadian-Iranian artist Soheila Esfahani is comprised of more than 100 shipping pallets. Esfahani transforms these everyday objects, often used as platforms to transport goods and materials, to capture the feeling of in-betweenness — a space where those experiencing migration often find themselves negotiating identities and cultures.

CURATORIAL PROJECT

In Search of A Loss of Self

Curated by Soheila Esfahani and Mélika Hashemi

Pardiss Amerian, Hédi Bouraoui, Gabriel Cohen, Elizabeth Eastman, Judy Garfin, Colwyn Griffith, Adad Hannah, Jamelie Hassan, Robert Hedrick, John Howlin, Norman Laliberté, Wadie El Mahdy, Keiko Minami, George Douglas Pepper, Kathleen Daly Pepper, Mary Hiester Reid, Pierre-Léon Tétreault, Jacques de Tonnancour

The fourteenth instalment of the Community Curator Program approaches the Permanent Collection through an Islamic postcolonial lens. In Search of a Loss of Self explores suppressed and appropriated histories through artists from the Middle East and North Africa and relevant themes such as modernism, orientalism and the infinite. This collaborative research project seeks to unveil and mend the gaps in our collective understanding of these works. In this way, the exhibition becomes a constellation point for the continued (re-)learning of European art history in the West through embodied knowledge and relationality.